XF 2.1 At least 1 post before being able to send private message?

[Hristo Avramov]

Can I achieve this somehow? There's one guy(bot) that registers a lot of new usernames and sends private message spam. If I am able to set private messages being able to be sent after 1 post on the forum he will lose the battle. Do you have advice?

 

[Ozzy47]

Remove the permission to send PC for new members (Registered user group).

Promote members to a user group with the permission allowed after x posts.

 

[AndyB]

You might like this add-on:

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/new-conversation-manager.7248/

 

[Ozzy47]

There is no need for an paid addon in this case, the inbuilt promotion system handles what the OP is after.

 

[marquisite]

Remove the permission to send PC for new members (Registered user group).

Promote members to a user group with the permission allowed after x posts.

About two years ago I set up a user group promotion to do exactly this. It works really well. Upon sign up, users cannot create new conversations (but can receive them). Within an hour of creating 1 forum post, the user group promotion adds the poster into a custom secondary user group that grants them the ability to create new conversations.

I'm basically echoing Ozzy47, but to spell it out further you'll want to do three things:

1. For the default Registered user group, set the Start conversations permission to No.
   
   
   
2. Create a custom user group and set its Start conversations permission to Yes. I've named this group "Registered (Posted)" but you can call it whatever you like.
   
   
   
3. Create a user group promotion that will add registered users to your new custom user group after they make 1 forum post. First, give the user promotion a name and choose the user group that you want promoted users to be added to.
   
   
   Then apply your desired promotion criteria, which in this case is 1 or more forum posts. N.B. there are a number of other criteria options not shown in this screenshot.
   

This isn't complicated IMO, but I thought some screenshots might help you or other administrators who find this thread in the future.

You could repeat steps 1 and 2 if there are any other permission that you don't want enabled until after someone submits their first forum post. For example, with signatures I only allow extended formatting, images and links after 1+ forum posts.

 

[Paul B]

This is something which has been in the manual since the beginning.

User groups | Manual | XenForo

End-user documentation for XenForo

xenforo.com

 

[siONtI]

Or you can use this free add-on https://xenforo.com/community/resources/addonslab-conversation-permissions.5658/

 

[Digital Doctor]

Create a custom user group

Something like this shouldn't be handled by groups. it should be a setting.

Whole new groups for one tiny feature isn't ideal.

 

[Ozzy47]

It’s perfectly ideal and has been the proper away to deal with different limits since the beginning.

 

[beerForo]

Something like this shouldn't be handled by groups. it should be a setting.

Whole new groups for one tiny feature isn't ideal.

So how do you apply that setting to a group of people? Get it now?

 

[marquisite]

Something like this shouldn't be handled by groups. it should be a setting.

Whole new groups for one tiny feature isn't ideal.

It might not be just one tiny feature, though. There could be other allowances that you only want to make available to your users after 1+ posts. Signatures, profile posts, or maybe uploading attachments, just to name a few. This and more could all be done with the one extra user group + a user group promotion.

 

[Digital Doctor]

So how do you apply that setting to a group of people? Get it now?

How can I add settings simple settings to the Registered group ?

What if I wanted another setting ? Another group ? Group fatigue sets in quick

 

[Digital Doctor]

It might not be just one tiny feature, though. There could be other allowances that you only want to make available to your users after 1+ posts. Signatures, profile posts, or maybe uploading attachments, just to name a few. This and more could all be done with the one extra user group + a user group promotion.

That's exactly what groups are for.

And doesn't apply to the OP's simple setting request.

 

[Ozzy47]

I want 132,009 settings to go through.

 

[beerForo]

So... if you have this setting, you STILL have to apply it to certain members only, i.e. a... group. That's the purpose of groups.

 

[Ozzy47]

Six in one, half a dozen in the other. Many ways to achieve something, but human nature wants to do it the way they can’t.